Phil Oakey has said that he would be interested in recording new music with Martyn Ware in the future.

Ware formed The Human League with Oakey and Ian Craig Marsh in the late 1970s, but Ware and March split off acrimoniously in 1980 to form Heaven 17.

Oakey and Ware have since reconciled and The Human League and Heaven 17 shared a bill in 2008, together with fellow Sheffield band ABC, as part of the 'Steel City Tour'.

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Asked if he would work in the studio with Ware again, Oakey told DS: "Oh yeah, I could do that at some stage. Yeah, we've talked about that. I had lunch with him about three weeks ago."

On what the collaboration could be called, Oakey's bandmate Susan Ann Sulley laughed: "It wouldn't be The Human League!"

Oakey also confirmed to Spinner: "It wouldn't be a Human League collaboration because he can't be part of the Human League again.

"We could try to work together again and see if we're of the same mind. I might be interested to kick some ideas around with Martyn and see what's happening."

Oakey recently revealed that he is happy for his band's 1981 hit 'Don't You Want Me' to be used in an episode of Glee, but added that the show's producer Ryan Murphy is "a bit out of order" in criticising groups who ban their music from the Fox comedy.